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Twenty years afterIn Nancy J. Nersessian (ed.), The Process of Science: Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to Understanding Scientific Practice, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1987.
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100The logic of scientific inquirySynthese 26 (3-4). 1974.Is methodological theory a priori or a posteriori knowledge? It is perhaps a posteriori improvable, somehow. For example, Duhem discovered that since scientists disagree on methods, they do not always know what they are doing. How is methodological innovation possible? If it is inapplicable in retrospect, then it is not universal and so seems defective; if it is, then there is a miracle here. Even so, the new explicit awareness of rules previously implicitly known is in itself beneficial. And so…Read more
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32The structure of the quantum revolution (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 13 (3): 367-381. 1983.A century and a half ago James Spedding wrote a two-volume review of Macaulay’s Essay on Bacon’. That review inaugurated a career dedicated to the study of Bacon, including a biography that is still, perhaps, the best extant, and the preparation of the collected works-by Ellis, Spedding, and Heath-which is still the standard edition in Bacon scholarship. Had I treated Kuhn’s new book with a similar degree of attention, the result would be a book-length study of Max Planck and his contribution to…Read more
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Criticism of the welfare state is mostly economic and administrative, relating to the resultant national debt and state bureaucracy. Budget cuts and privatization may help but not eliminate the difficulty. Yet, the primary concern of the welfare system is neither economic nor administrative; so, the force of this criticism is limited. To restrict the discussion to the defunct free-markets and centralized economies is to distort and to obstruct clear thinking on national priorities. Criticism of …Read more
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2Book Reviews : David Gooding, Trevor Pinch, and Simon Schaffer, eds., The Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural Sciences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. Pp. xvii, 467, £50 (cloth), £19.50 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 22 (2): 266-268. 1992.
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21The Unity of Hume's ThoughtHume Studies 1985 (1): 87-109. 1985.This is the beginning of an integrated image of Hume's person, thought, and actions as a conservative liberal reformist.
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The Theory and Practice of Critical RationalismBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 160 1-1. 1994.
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80The role of the philosopher among the scientists: Nuisance or necessity?Social Epistemology 3 (4). 1989.1. Where is the trouble? Let us take it for granted that a person can be interested in researches that go on in different fields, for example, in physics and in psychology. Undoubtedly, this will raise problems not shared by a person whose research is confined to one field only. There may be difficulty in deciding which of the two is that person's primary field of interest; members of his secondary field of interest may be flattered or feel slighted or even threatened by his intrusion into their…Read more
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The Role of Corroboration in Popper's MethodologyAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 39 (n/a): 82. 1961.
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58The structure of scientific revolutionsJournal of the History of Philosophy 4 (4): 351-354. 1966.
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91The place of metaphysics in the historiography of scienceFoundations of Physics 26 (4): 483-499. 1996.Legitimating the use of metaphysics in scientific research constituted a farreaching methodological revolution, invalidating the inductivist demands that science be guided by empirical information alone. Thus, science became tentative. The revolution was established when pioneering historians of science, Max Jammer among them, exhibited the working of metaphysics in scientific research. This raises many problems, since most metaphysical ideas are poor as compared with scientific ones. Yet taking…Read more
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3Book Review: The Rhetoric of Science (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 29 (2): 329-335. 1999.
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84The problem of universalsPhilosophical Studies 28 (4). 1975.The pair democreteanism-Platonism (nothing/something is outside space-Time) differs from the pair nominalism-Realism (universals are/are not nameable entities). Nominalism need not be democretean, And democreateanism is nominalist only if conceptualism is rejected. Putnam's critique of nominalism is thus invalid. Quine's theory is democretean-When-Possible: quine is also a minimalist platonist. Conceptualists and realists agree that universals exist but not as physical objects. Nominalists accep…Read more
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1The notion of the modern nation-state: Popper and nationalismIn Ian Charles Jarvie & Sandra Pralong (eds.), Popper's Open society after fifty years: the continuing relevance of Karl Popper, Routledge. 1999.
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Technology, Philosophical and Social AspectsJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 18 (1): 322-331. 1987.
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18The novelty of Chomsky's theoriesIn David Martel Johnson & Christina E. Erneling (eds.), The Future of the Cognitive Revolution, Oxford University Press. pp. 136--148. 1997.
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47The philosophy of common sensePhilosophia 17 (4): 421-438. 1987.Philosophers wanted commonsense to fight skepticism. They hypostasized and destroyed it. Commonsense is skeptical--Bound by a sense of proportion and of limitation. A scarce commodity, At times supported, At times transcended by science, Commonsense has to be taken account of by the critical-Realistic theory of science. James clerk maxwell's view of today's science as tomorrow's commonsense is the point of departure. It is wonderful but overlooks the value of the sense of proportion
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46The Novelty of Popper’s Philosophy of ScienceInternational Philosophical Quarterly 8 (3): 442-463. 1968.
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D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
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